"It is a bad thing to perform menial duties even for the sake of freedom; to fight with pinpricks, instead of with clubs. I have become tired of hypocrisy, stupidity, gross arbitrariness, and of our bo…"

"The State is the form in which the individuals of a ruling class assert their common interests, and in which the whole civil society of an epoch is epitomized."

"May the devil take these peoples movements, especially when they are 'peaceful'."

"The proletariat needs the state, not for freedom, but for the suppression of its opponents."

"The more the worker spends himself, the more powerful becomes the alien world of objects which he creates over and against himself, the poorer he himself — his inner world — becomes, the less belongs …"